“Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.”
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“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
“Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
Source: Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
Source: Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper
“A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.”
Source: Poems of King Alfred
Source: Mortals and Others
“The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.”
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.”
Source: The Poems
“Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.”
“Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.”
Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
“The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.”
Source: The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe
“Some people are more nice than wise.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages
“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
“He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran